#this too was a collaboration!

[inkskinned]

i got my isbn today for the book. 8 months to go. my mom and i were talking about what the next steps are. i was eating trail mix, standing on one foot, phone tucked into my ear.

"yeah," i said. "the problem is that tumblr as a market is like, not something that can be studied." there's this weird wave of nostalgia and affection for this place that came up over me: how lovely we avoid consumerism. okay, it sucks as a creator. but also? keep stickin' it to 'em.

my mother made the sound at the back of her throat that i also make, the one that means i've got an idea. "you should figure out some kind of reward for presale amounts. maybe you give out poems or a mug or a signed book or something. would your followers like that?" my mother is sweet, and kind, and i have no idea how to explain on this website you can buy someone crabs.

i put more m&ms down the hatch. i had to speak through peanuts and almonds. "if it passes 25 thousand i will print the book out in its entirety and eat it live on camera."

"oh god. no, you don't have to do that." she was anguished. "just tell them that you'd love them to read it, and that they've inspired you to write. you got started on that site, and they helped you keep going. raquel, you love these people. the community? you talk all the time about the other writers and artists and whatever else. tell them that you're hoping for their support, they'll come through."

"no," i assured her. i discovered i had dropped an m&m, but an ant had already found it, so it belonged to him now. i will let his little life have a surprise blue treasure in it, too. "i'm gonna fuckin' eat the book."

#writeblr #:) #the small secret love i have for y'all. the way i am filled with gratitude. #for the nosebleed club. for stephen particularly. #for every artist i've ever been in contact with and collaborated with. #for every person who has commented on my work and passed it along or fallen in love with it #for every silent 'just hitting like' follower and for every person who sends me dms and for each of you #i know i suck at replying bc i have anxiety. but like. you keep being here. so i keep writing. #i legit wouldn't be here without you. #thank you sophie thank you katie thank you carolyn thank you stephanie thank you jess #thank you if you're reading this #i got too overwhelmed with love and have to stop writing this FAR too early into the thank yous bc im about to cry with love

[nelkcats]

The Spiteful Ghost

Danny loved space, and loved exploring it almost as much as he loved the Realms (yes, apparently he had made a home there, and learned to love its quirkiness, who could knew right?). The problem was that over the years the halfa acquired another characteristic: He hated heroes.

It might seem ironic, considering his teenager years but he just couldn't stand the concept of heroism (he never chosed to be one), not after all he had been through. Not after losing his family and ending up with more than deep wounds, not after humanity called him a villain for protecting the ghosts, not after the world chosed to sacrifice him after all he did for them (Amity was his world, and the city handed him over on a silver platter to save itself, they forced him to take drastic measures, actions he should never have taken, but when you're alone it turns out that no one can stop you)

They say that rancor can change you, the halfa can confirm. The point is, Danny hated heroes (he hated what they had to go through, hated that adult heroes weren't there for him, hated what it took to be a hero, leaving everything for the world was absurd, why would you accept something like that?). When the ghosts told him about the DC dimension he didn't take it exactly well. Although at least those heroes had a base in space.

Clockwork forbade him to go for a few months (he understood his grudge, quite personal, but he didn't want it to destroy him, he didn't want him to destroy himself), but when he saw him lost and depressed he allowed it, probably because he knew it would cheer him up for a while. Maybe he saw some future where he reconciled with the "profession", or maybe he thought he needed it (the halfa wasn't evil, Clockwork knew he wouldn't hurt anyone).

So, Danny arrived in the hero dimension and set out to be the world's biggest nuisance: moved chairs, ate their snacks, disappeared their stuff. He wasn't doing anything exceptionally big until he overheard an argument between the Red Hood and Batman.

After that, Batman ran out of gadgets in no time and Red Hood found little desserts everywhere. By the time they called JLD, it was pretty obvious they had an invader (the invader strangely loved Young Justice, and anti-heroes, seemed to hate Batman thought).

John Constantine entered feeling that he was walking to his funeral, why the hell had the Ghost King installed himself in a hero base, if it was rumored that he hated them to death?

#dpxdc #ghost king danny #The GIW went too far #and killed everyone that Danny cared about #Amity blamed him for those deaths #They blamed the ghosts for everything #and soon after that the whole city called him a villain for protecting the ghosts instead of just collaborating with the GIW #But Danny couldn't do that #the ghosts comforted him #the ghosts gave him a home #they understood #dp x dc #dc x dp #He ended destroying the GIW and leaving Amity #After Amity betrayed him and almost got him double killed #he couldn't stand the concept of heroism after that #he began to hate everyone who called themselves a hero #everyone who abandoned family and chosed the world first #because deep inside him Danny felt that that was the wrong choice #but even if it was he didn't like killing or anything #so he did some pranks to the JL #He sabotaged their equipments and was a nuisance in general while helping teenage heroes who didn't know better #Danny hate heroes #danny is tired

[lil-beanz000]

Boom Xmas Joy~

Collab with ma lovely friend @banana-jar-studio ~~(Original sketch done by them)

Have a great Christmas an happy Holidays yall! <3 And a HAPPY NEW YEAR!

#rottmnt donnie #rottmnt #save rottmnt #tmnt #rise donatello #my art #collaboration #art #banana jar studio #We swapped sketches 0w0 #i love how banana draws donnie #so niceeeeeeee #he looks so gud in highwaisted pants too 0w0 #merry christmas #<3 #ma first art collab! :D #christmas

[pathologising]

hi everyone! the small online art publication i work with (art currently) is always looking for writers/contributors and underrepresented artists to write about and things like that (it's free!). so if you want to be written about or write about an artist, we are looking for you!!!!!

if you are interested in submitting a story/writing with us, please head to this link. please be sure to read all the guidelines and feel free to ask me any questions you have before submitting.

if you are a contemporary artist (particularily of an underrepresented group) and you're interested in being written about/working with us, contact us on our instagram or contact me directly!

we are still a growing publication, so we are always looking for new eyes and fresh faces to contribute to our world! thanks for reading.

#pls boost this if you can :) #art publication #modern art #contemporary art #feel free to reach out to me here if you want to work with us too! we are looking for contemporary artists digital and traditional and #all mediums to write about and collaborate with

[eucacici]

Another collab I did with @glasspunkart ✨ Love drawing this dumb deer mafia boss

#transformers #transformers rid2015 #rid2015 #maccadam #thunderhoof #collaboration #collab: glasspunk #glassy art #friend tag hehe #my art #euca's art #nearly forgot to post on here too djhasdjka

[bast0gne]

i have some thoughts about medical student!gene and paramedic!babe and they're gonna make my brain explode if i don't share them

bill and babe taking shifts together. bill makes babe drive cause he's "older" (their birthdays are two weeks apart but babe likes to indulge him).

babe has the biggest crush on gene. babe also has a very specific way of flirting which sometimes ends with him stumbling over his own words. bill still cheers him on ithis includes some horribly obvious thumbs up.

gene just quit smoking. that's why babe frantically stubs out his cigarettes whenever he spots gene on his break.

lip as the charge nurse google said it's the correct term. no one dares to f*ck with him. that man is running a tight ship and he will hold you accountable for f*cking up. he's also immensely likable, so no one dares to upset him. plus. he's dating the scary neurosurgeon who is going to yell at you for making lip upset.

gene accidentally injuring babe (like he did in bastogne) and then patching up his hand. meanwhile babe's praying that gene doesn't catch on to how fast his heart is beating.

gene offering babe chocolate after a rough day. babe draping a blanket over gene when he catches him sleeping in the staff room.

babe inviting gene to a party. them having a quiet moment alone on the balcony. gene's drenched in the soft yellow lights of the fairy lights above them and babe wonders how anyone could not be in love with this beautiful, beautiful man in front of him (inspired by this song).

gene's car breaking down one day. babe offering to drive him home cause "he kinda drives people around for a living anyway." it becomes a regular thing.

gene and his grandma. gene telling babe about the times he's spent with her. gene telling babe about the guilt he feels because he couldn't save her.

gene playing a part in saving a patient with the same medical condition as his grandma's. babe being there to support him cause he's well aware of the impact this whole situation has on gene.

all the elderly patients loving gene. also, all the elderly patients knowing that gene is crushing on babe as well and trying to give him pointers. if it worked well in their day, it should still work well, right?

gene and renée and spina living together and being besties. idk i just love whenever that happens in a fic.

babe being very interested in the french language after hearing gene speak in french.

bonus because it fits into the universe: fire captain!dick and bartender!nix. nix's attempts at cooking lead to them seeing each other at least once a week. dick wonders why nix isn't just asking him out like a normal person.

#baberoe #babe heffron #eugene roe #i might add to this later #but feel free to add to this too!! #also fair warning!! i am absolutely clueless about american hospitals #but i like to put these two into different kinds of situations #all of this has been a collaborative effort with my bestie who i keep bothering with baberoe #but also.......i really just love to think of gene as the doctor who really cares for elderly patients and just vibes with them idk #he would love them and they would love him #tag: text post

[ferahntics]

@startistdoodles​ and I have been occupied, to say the least, and created our Magnum Opus that is Quidia 😂❤ (Quiver Knight and Sidia Knight)

This started off as a joke and a ‘haha if they were a couple they’d be cranky all the time’ and it just kind of. Torpedoed itself off the coast into a full-blown in-depth ship with development and we’re losing our minds.

So of course we threw this together, Star drew the many Sidias, the wedding drawing above and the adorable bonding moment in the post below, I drew Quivers and handled the graphic design portion. This was insanely fun to do aaaaa 💕💕💕

Here’s the blank for the 5 minute template!

#the snail in our brains took over #that's a running joke too KJSHDG #please listen they are so wholesome and we're not getting tired either xD #quiver #quiver knight #sidia #sidia knight #collab #collaboration #startistdoodles #kirby #kirby oc #quidia #fan character #believe me when I say this is just the very very tip of the iceberg #but if we put it all here this post would never end #or we'd reach tumblr's limit if there is one xD #enjoy these two as much as Star and I do cause looooord we've reached enlightenment

[dozydawn]

Needlepoint embroidery (found works made from hobby kits, unpicked and reworked) by Matt Smith.

#the ethics of unpicking thrifted needlework is a rich vein. #in my previous post some folks disapproved. i don’t know where i stand. #i’m the sort of person who dislikes when women butcher an heirloom wedding dress. so i should dislike this too. but i don’t. #if he were a worse textile artist i might. & i prefer to think of smith’s work as collaborative anyway #the credit should read unknown & matt smith #needlepoint #needlework #embroidery #textile art #matt smith #matt j smith #surreal #surrealism #fave art

[kunehokki]

#i spent too much effort to not share this with the class #i’m keeping up with secret life but not nearly as enthralled by it compared to the artbook #cant wait to see the community’s lovely and collaborative effort into making something beautiful!

[uncanny-tranny]

It's actually wild that "derivative" is used as a disparaging term for often small artists, when... almost every artist is derivative to some extent - even the most grandiose of authors, or the person who snatches the world and throws it into his canvas.

Deriving your art from the world you live in is just the name of the game. Now, it is true that you can do this seamlessly, and you can also do it in such a way that is "messy," but I find it odd that people think of deriving your art from a source is inherently negative. We all take inspiration from somewhere. We are not an island.

#art #positivity #gentle reminders #in the demand to have only Original Art we have killed all value that art has #in the pressure to be Original your spirit has been dimmed. you have isolated yourself from the world #i understand why people don't like it when you can tell what an art piece is derivative from but. i don't know if i always agree? #i think deriving your art and then exanding upon it is such a great idea. it becomes collaborative #if my point hasn't been made all too clearly my excuse is that the cold is starting to lock up the joints in my hands ♡

[siriwesen]

I'm neither a Danny Phantom nor a DC Fan. I don't know shit about DC.

But the folks in that Crossover fandom sure can write fun fanfiction to read. Like these stories sell themselves to me. A very casual Danny Phantom enjoyer.

I don't know who anyone else is but I sure just take the authors words as canon and roll with it.

#dc x dp #i just accidentally stumbled upon this and all of you write so many fun things #i like how collaborative it is too #very wholesome and enjoyable for an observer #at some point ill still try and draw some art as appreciation for this tag

[lesbiangiratina]

Thanks ladies

#id say its as good as confirmed now but also it would be a little funny if they got tricked with us too. like a little. #also did they collaborate on this or did megumi see this tweet like 10 minutes later and go yeah ill post crying gon too #the kat goes meow

[swallowtail-ageha]

Something something Laurence being a foreigner something something him experiencing xenophobia something something him learnig how efficient the oppression he faced is as a tool for keeping the masses calm and distracting them

#have no thoughts just vibes yknow #after learning that og laurence was supposed to be the best friend's mc who too came to yharnam the idea of foreigner laurence #lives in my head rent free #ig that i could also do something with this and bradors employment?? #like. i do think that brador (canonically a foreigner) too knew how much powerful as a tool xenophobia is #like his whole character screams that hes well enough aware to think that #and the fact that he willingly collaborated with the extremely xenophobic healing church is. interesting? #and ig that according to this hc laurence's influence might have something to do with this #idk thats just some rambling. my brain is pretty fried atm #bloodborne #laurence the first vicar #adding this tag a day later but also like.. hes one of the few characters with a definitely english sounding name and #most characters with those names are foreigner

[a2zillustration]

Your Croissant Comics every day give me life, I love them sooo much and i dread the day they'll stop! <3

Thank you!! Me too :')

#I try not to think about when I finish the game and subsequently run out of story to illustrate :'))))))))) #It'll be nice to have room in my schedule for other projects again #but tbh I might do some post-game comics too (I've already scripted a handful of breadweave things that weren't in-game events) #I'm also considering collaborating with a friend who can write to make some sort of short fantasy graphic novel #I've been bitten by the sequential art bug lol #asks

[dyke-in-crisis]

anyways I think its sad that nowadays nobody experiences the joy of being an insufferable 15 yo watching shaky youtube fake vlogs titled some shit like "halloween hotel secret twink meetup" yelling OMG GUYS ITS ALEX FROM SMENDERLAN69

#truly a different type of euphoria ily collaborative slenderseries #slenderverse #emh #mlandersen0 #im too tired to type out all the other ones but you get it!! #everymanhybrid

[ruby-red-inky-blue]

a couple of years back i was pretty vocal about not getting when people complained about their art not getting "enough" notes. but i'm getting to recognise a sub-category of that frustration these days that, in fairness, was maybe what people were talking about all along? but i've also seen other posts mention how fandom spaces feel changed since the last few years, so maybe it's a new thing or at least a thing that hadn't reached my fandom corner until now.

i truly don't mind if my writing doesn't garner a lot of attention (although i say this from a place of priviledge where my writing has so far always garnered some attention, and often a lot more than i anticipated). but what is really starting to grate a little is the amount of attention vs. the amount of reaction. For example, before the latest update on my big multichapter fic, it sat at ~ 33,050 hits. since then the fic has been clicked 400 times. the kudos count went up by maybe three and there were three new bookmarks - this isn't super surprising because i don't expect to be reaching a lot of new people with an unfinished 100+k word fic in a dwindling fandom, and if they're return readers they can't leave new kudos. but five people have commented on the fic since the update. One percent of readers who have clicked on this fic have reacted. Did all these people see it on the recently updated feed, started to read it, didn't vibe with it and moved on? That honestly wouldn't bother me. But it's been steadily gaining attention for the last few weeks, long after it moved off the first page of the recently updated view for the fandom. so rather, I think it's mostly subscribed users (the fic has a little over 400 active subscriptions so that would make sense) or people actively checking back on the fic. in which case they must be at least somewhat invested in it.

and again, i'm not owed any feedback. i put my work out for free and people decide what to do with that. but fandom is a collaborative space, and it's been feeling like less that for a while. people seem less ready for conversation, and i think that's sad, and quite demoralising for creatives (at least for me personally). fandom work isn't meant as bingeable content that you consume and then leave. if you do that on netflix, that's fine, because you're paying the platform and they're at least supposed to recompense the creatives who made the show you just watched. fandom artists don't get that. we make things for the love of it, and because we wanted to share that love. it doesn't feel like sharing though when you put something out there and nothing comes back. it feels like standing in an empty warehouse telling my stories to nobody. and, again, i'm personally lucky enough that it's not like that all the time, but i get why people stop doing it. and i get that engaging with art as an audience member doesn't come easy to everyone, but fandom culture needs it. it's supposed to be an exchange. it's supposed to go both ways, and i think if you want to sustain the culture, you simply need to try and give something back, whatever that is.

because putting something you made out there and nobody looks at it is definitely not a great feeling, but having anonymous masses file by and look at your thing and then meet you with deafening silence feels... worse.

#again i cannot overstate how much this doesn't go for all my readers #and how lucky i am to still have anyone care about fics i started seven years ago i do get that #but yeah the engagement ratios have changed i think? #and it's on tumblr too and not just with art also just like. observations and meta posts and jokes and stuff #people like and reblog your thing but there's no comment no little smileys in the tags no silly ramblings just... #my new favourite pet peeve is seeing people asking for advice or asking a question and there's like fifty likes and not one reply or reblog #what are you supposed to do with that #yeah idk it's supposed to be collaborative right #and we can't all collaborate all the time but i feel like people used to interact with maybe 50 percent of the things they saw #and now it's like 10 #anyway #fandom #tbd